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Break in Bitter Family Feud

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Craig Karmin

Updated May 19, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

A long-running family feud over a vast portfolio of Manhattan property moved closer to resolution on Tuesday when a New York court ruled that Neil Bender is fit to run William Gottlieb's billion-dollar estate.

The appellate court ruling cleared a major legal obstacle that some brokers say may have kept Mr. Bender and his father, Irving Bender, from developing blocks of prime real estate in the West Village and the Meatpacking District...